topic Which is better - more line features or fewer, but longer lines? in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/which-is-better-more-line-features-or-fewer-but/m-p/507973#M28799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've just been given 1 ft contours for our whole county, but they are in about 11,000 different feature classes.&nbsp; I've started the process of merging them into fewer feature classes to make it easier to work with them.&nbsp; My question, after I do the merge, should I dissolve the lines by elevation?&nbsp; And if so, do I allow multi-part features?&nbsp; I have many millions of features after doing the merge.&nbsp; Is it better to have fewer but longer features?&nbsp; Thanks.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 May 2014 20:14:42 GMT MikeHargreaves 2014-05-08T20:14:42Z Which is better - more line features or fewer, but longer lines? https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/which-is-better-more-line-features-or-fewer-but/m-p/507973#M28799 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I've just been given 1 ft contours for our whole county, but they are in about 11,000 different feature classes.&nbsp; I've started the process of merging them into fewer feature classes to make it easier to work with them.&nbsp; My question, after I do the merge, should I dissolve the lines by elevation?&nbsp; And if so, do I allow multi-part features?&nbsp; I have many millions of features after doing the merge.&nbsp; Is it better to have fewer but longer features?&nbsp; Thanks.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Mike</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 08 May 2014 20:14:42 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/which-is-better-more-line-features-or-fewer-but/m-p/507973#M28799 MikeHargreaves 2014-05-08T20:14:42Z